It can't be?

Last week pp was in town to give his campaign stump speech on his "American Job Bill" now before congress. I blogged earlier about the details of his visit. After his spiel was over, local broadcast interviewed some of the attendees. One particular guy was an unemployed hardhatted construction worker and his response is the focus of this blog. It went something like this. "Well I heard pp was going to be in town to give a speech about a new bridge and I thought they maybe looking for a welder, so I came". "I have not been working for 17 YEARS". "Sure could use a job". I had a third party verify what we heard was correct...17 Years. Yep! It was probably said in error, rather 17 months, but why the TV editors didn't delete or correct, makes me wonder. Perhaps this old boy was correct... in 17 years! Maybe his home was under the bridge? pp handlers using the underside of the existing
I-71/75 bridge as a backdrop stumbled over this guy, cleaned him up and staged him as there prop for a pre arranged post-interview? Then who were the other ~1,000 idle hardhatted construction workers at the rally? It can't be?